Experts agreed on this at the Global Workshop on ‘Synergistic Application of Sustainable Water and Energy Consumption and Production for the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement’.
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The purpose of the agreement is to promote the sustainable transformation of small-scale agriculture by increasing productivity while conserving natural resources.
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At the most important international event for political and technical negotiations on the future of production methods and consumption around the world, farmers in the Americas had an influential voice, and the science- and innovation-based solutions to the climate crisis they are implementing in rural areas attracted a great deal of interest.
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The situation faced by farmers in Caribbean countries, whose livelihoods are under threat, was explained to COP29 participants in the pavilion operated by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) at the global event.
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Nature-based solutions have huge potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation, especially for the rural communities of the Caribbean and small island states. This was highlighted by experts at an event at COP29 organized by the Commonwealth of Nations, to which the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) was invited for its experience in projects aimed at improving the resiliency of agrifood systems.
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Details of the latest advances were presented to participants in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) at an event held in the pavilion that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) installed in Baku, Azerbaijan, with its private and public sector partners.
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The resilience of the country’s agriculture sector, which has some 6000 active farmers, is important not only for the island nation itself, but for the entire Caribbean region, since for decades much of its production has been exported to neighboring islands, explained Roland Royer, Dominica’s Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Blue and Green Economy.
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The pavilion of IICA and its partners, which for the third consecutive year is present at the world’s biggest forum on the environment, was the venue where the President and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), Krysta Harden, showed the advances the sector has been making in recent years in the area of sustainability.
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For the third consecutive year, IICA has collaborated with partners such as CAS and the Ministries of Agriculture of the Americas to bring the voice of agriculture and climate solutions to the annual COP conferences.
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